Antimicrobial consumption and resistance in adult hospital inpatients in 53 countries: results of an internet-based global point prevalence survey by Ann Versporten, MPH, Peter Zarb, PhD, Isabelle Caniaux, MPharm, Marie-Françoise Gros, MD, Nico Drapier, BAI, Mark Miller, MD, Vincent Jarlier, ProfMD, Dilip Nathwani, ProfMD, Herman Goossens, ProfMD, Andi Koraqi, Iris Hoxha, Silva Tafaj, Denada Lacej, Martin Hojman, Rodolfo Ernesto Quiros, Lilit Ghazaryan, Kelly A Cairns, Allen Cheng, Kylie C Horne, Fiona F Doukas, Thomas Gottlieb, Jameela Alsalman, Koen Magerman, Gounongbe YT Marielle, Amela Dedeic Ljubovic, André Afonso Machado Coelho, Ana Cristina Gales, Emma Keuleyan, Deana Sabuda, Jennifer Lee Boswell, John M Conly, Alvaro Rojas, Camila Carvajal, Jaime Labarca, Antonio Solano, Carlos Ramírez Valverde, Juan M Villalobos-Vindas, Irina Pristas, Vanda Plecko, Niki Paphitou, Erjona Shaqiri, Maija-Liisa Rummukainen, Karaman Pagava, Irma Korinteli, Tobias Brandt, Sabine Messler, Anthony Enimil, Elias Iosifidis, Emmanuel Roilides, Mamadou Saliou Sow, Sharmila Sengupta, Joby V George, Aruna Poojary, Priyanka Patil, Jafar Soltani, Zahra Jafarpour, Hadi Ameen, David Fitzgerald, Yasmin Maor, Michal Chowers, Elizabeth Temkin, Susanna Esposito, Luca Arnoldo, Silvio Brusaferro, Yoshiaki Gu, Feras Darwish El-Hajji, Nam Joong Kim, Baktygul Kambaralieva, Jana Pavare, Lelde Zarakauska, Vytautas Usonis, Sigita Burokiene, Inga Ivaskeviciene, Gordana Mijovic, Natasa Duborija-Kovacevic, Kristen Bondesio, Kenneth Iregbu, Oyinlola Oduyebo, Denis Raka, Lul Raka, Svetlana Rachina, Mushira Abdulaziz Enani, Mohamed Al Shehri, Biljana Carevic, Gorana Dragovac, Dusanka Obradovic, Aleksandra Stojadinovic, Lili Radulovic, Jia EN Wu, Gladys Wei Teng Chung, Hui Hiong Chen, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, David Lye, Sock Hoon Tan, Tat Ming Ng, Hui Lin Tay, Moi Lin Ling, Maciej Piotr Chlebicki, Andrea L Kwa, Winnie Lee, Bojana Beović, Angela Dramowski, Heather Finlayson, Jantjie Taljaard, Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos, Pilar Retamar, Johan Lucas, Wolter Pot, Cees Verduin, Jan Kluytmans, Michael Scott, Mamoon A Aldeyab, Bernadette McCullagh, Cairine Gormley, David Sharpe, Mark Gilchrist, Laura Whitney, Matthew Laundy, Debbie Lockwood, Simon B Drysdale, Jennifer Boudreaux, Edward J Septimus, Nickie Greer, Gerard Gawrys, Edgar Rios, Suzanne May

“…The frequency of health-care-associated infections was highest in Latin America (1518 [11·9%]) and east and south Asia (5363 [10·1%]). Overall, the reason for treatment was recorded in 31 694 (76·9%) of antimicrobial prescriptions, and a stop or review date in 15 778 (38·3%). …”
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HTAP2 multi-model estimates of premature human mortality due to intercontinental transport of air pollution and emission sectors by C.-K. Liang, J. J. West, R. A. Silva, H. Bian, M. Chin, Y. Davila, F. J. Dentener, L. Emmons, J. Flemming, G. Folberth, D. Henze, U. Im, J. E. Jonson, T. J. Keating, T. Kucsera, A. Lenzen, M. Lin, M. T. Lund, X. Pan, R. J. Park, R. B. Pierce, T. Sekiya, K. Sudo, T. Takemura

“…We estimate global air-pollution-related premature mortality from exposure to PM_2.5 and ozone and the avoided deaths due to 20 % anthropogenic emission reductions from six source regions, North America (NAM), Europe (EUR), South Asia (SAS), East Asia (EAS), Russia–Belarus–Ukraine (RBU), and the Middle East (MDE), three global emission sectors, power and industry (PIN), ground transportation (TRN), and residential (RES), and one global domain (GLO), using an ensemble of global chemical transport model simulations coordinated by the second phase of the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollutants (TF HTAP2), and epidemiologically derived concentration response functions. …”
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Global PARITY: Study Design for a Multi-Centered, International Point Prevalence Study to Estimate the Burden of Pediatric Acute Critical Illness in Resource-Limited Settings by Qalab Abbas, Adrian Holloway, Paula Caporal, Paula Caporal, Eliana López-Barón, Asya Agulnik, Kenneth E. Remy, Kenneth E. Remy, John A. Appiah, Jonah Attebery, Ericka L. Fink, Jan Hau Lee, Jan Hau Lee, Shubhada Hooli, Niranjan Kissoon, Erika Miller, Srinivas Murthy, Fiona Muttalib, Katie Nielsen, Maria Puerto-Torres, Karla Rodrigues, Firas Sakaan, Adriana Teixeira Rodrigues, Erica A. Tabor, Amelie von Saint Andre-von Arnim, Matthew O. Wiens, Matthew O. Wiens, Matthew O. Wiens, William Blackwelder, David He, Teresa B. Kortz, Teresa B. Kortz, Adnan T. Bhutta, Adnan T. Bhutta

“…We present this methods paper which describes our efforts to determine the prevalence, etiology, hospital outcomes, and resource utilization associated with pediatric acute, critical illness in RLS globally.MethodsWe will conduct a prospective, observational, multicenter, multinational point prevalence study in sixty-one participating RLS hospitals from North, Central and South America, Africa, Middle East and South Asia with four sampling time points over a 12-month period. …”
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High-resolution modeling of the distribution of surface air pollutants and their intercontinental transport by a global tropospheric atmospheric chemistry source–receptor model (G... by Q. Ye, Q. Ye, J. Li, J. Li, J. Li, X. Chen, X. Chen, H. Chen, W. Yang, W. Yang, H. Du, X. Pan, X. Pan, X. Tang, X. Tang, W. Wang, L. Zhu, J. Li, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang

“…Non-local source transport explains approximately 35 %–60 % of surface O₃ in EA, South Asia (SAS), EUR, and NAM. The O₃ exported from EUR can also be transported across the Arctic Ocean to the North Pacific and contributes nearly 5 %–7.5 % to the North Pacific. …”
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Interventions promoting uptake of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) technologies in low‐ and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map of effectiveness studies by Hannah Chirgwin, Sandy Cairncross, Dua Zehra, Hugh Sharma Waddington

“…The hardest hit regions are sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 calls for the end of open defecation, and universal access to safely managed water and sanitation facilities, and basic hand hygiene, by 2030. …”
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Simulating CH₄ and CO₂ over South and East Asia using the zoomed chemistry transport model LMDz-INCA by X. Lin, P. Ciais, P. Bousquet, M. Ramonet, Y. Yin, Y. Yin, Y. Balkanski, A. Cozic, M. Delmotte, N. Evangeliou, N. K. Indira, R. Locatelli, R. Locatelli, S. Peng, S. Piao, M. Saunois, P. S. Swathi, R. Wang, R. Wang, C. Yver-Kwok, Y. K. Tiwari, L. Zhou

“…South and East Asia (SEA; the study area in this paper including the regions of South Asia and East Asia) is a region with large and very uncertain emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄), the most potent anthropogenic GHGs. …”
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Essays in health and development economics by Hussam, Reshmaan Nahar

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Treatment of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever) with cephalosporins by Kuehn, R, Stoesser, N, Eyre, D, Darton, TC, Basnyat, B, Parry, CM

“…Fluoroquinolone resistance in South Asia often precludes the use of ciprofloxacin. …”

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Interventions to Improve the Employability and Employment of Young People in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic R... by Janice Tripney, Jorge Hombrados, Mark Newman, Kimberly Hovish, Chris Brown, Katarzyna Steinka‐Fry, Eric Wilkey

“…The review summarises findings from 26 studies conducted in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, East Asia, South Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa. Participants were between the ages of 15 and 24. …”
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Making Pakistani Primary Care More Resilient by Hina Jawaid, Abdul Jalil Khan

“…We must learn from other countries in South Asia like Sri Lanka, Iran, and Nepal where family medicine is considered a specialty. …”
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NASWAR (SMOKELESS TOBACCO PRODUCT), ORAL CANCER AND TOBACCO CONTROL IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN by Zohaib Khan

“…A medicinal herb to some and a recreational drug for others, the Oxford Medical Companion describes tobacco as“...tobacco is the only legally available consumer product which kills people when it is used entirely as intended”.1 Tobacco kills one person every six seconds.2 Tobacco killed more people in the 20th century than the two world wars combined and if the current trends of tobacco consumption continue, it will be responsible for more than a billion deaths by the end of the 21st century.3 Recent estimates suggest that more than 250 million people in South Asia use smokeless tobacco (SLT) products4 and Pakistan is no stranger to these products with 13.3% of the population using either Naswar, Paan, Gutkha and other SLT products.3 Naswar use is a major public health challenge in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where an estimated 15% of the province’s population is addicted to this mixture of tobacco, ash and lime.5 Naswar use is associated with a variety of conditions including upper aerodigestive tract cancers, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal disease.6 Oral cancer has become the most common cancer among men and the second most common cancer among women in Pakistan. …”
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قائمة مختارة من الكتب حول التصوف by مكتب المعهد في الأردن

“…Norris, Routledge Curzon, 2005, • Sufism in South Asia: Impact on Fourteenth Century Muslim Society. …”
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Space and Anxiety in the Colonial Novel: The Concepts of Sanctuary and Confinement in Burmese Days, Max Havelaar, Kim and Midnight’s Children by Edward Owen Teggin

“…Politeja, 40, Modern South Asia: A Space of Intercultural Dialogue, (2016). 435-454. …”
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Global, regional, and national progress towards sustainable development goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burd... by Paulson, Katherine R., Car, Lorainne Tudor, Alam, T., Bienhoff, K., Abady, G. G., Abbas, J., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., Abbastabar, H., Abd-Allah, F., Abd-Elsalam, S. M., Abdoli, A., Abedi, A., Abolhassani, H., Abreu, L. G., Abu-Gharbieh, E., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M. E., Abushouk A. I., Adamu, A. L., Adebayo, O. M., Adegbosin, A. E., Adekanmbi, V., Adetokunboh, O. O., Adeyinka, D. A., Adsuar, J. C., Afshari, K., Aghaali, M., Agudelo-Botero, M., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, T., Ahmadi, K., Ahmed, M. B., Aji, B., Akalu, Y., Akinyemi, O. O., Aklilu, A., Al-Aly, Z., Alam, K., Alanezi, F. M., Alanzi, T. M., Alcalde-Rabanal, J. E., Al-Eyadhy, A., Ali, T., Alicandro, G., Alif, S. M., Alipour, V., Alizade, H., Aljunid, S. M., Almasi-Hashiani, A., Almasri, N. A., Al-Mekhlafi, H. M., Alonso, J., Al-Raddadi, R. M., Altirkawi, K. A., Alumran, A. K., Alvis-Guzman, N., Alvis-Zakzuk, N. J., Ameyaw, E. K., Amini, S., Amini-Rarani, M., Amit, A. M. L., Amugsi, D. A., Ancuceanu, R., Anderlini, D., Andrei, C. L., Ansari, F., Ansari-Moghaddam, A., Antonio, C. A. T., Antriyandarti, E., Anvari, D., Anwer, R., Aqeel, M., Arabloo, J., Arab-Zozani, M., Aripov, T., ÄRnlöV, J., Artanti, K. D., Arzani, A., Asaad, M., Asadi-Aliabadi, M., Asadi-Pooya, A. A., Jafarabadi, M. A., Athari, S. S., Athari, S. M., Atnafu, D. D., Atreya, A., Atteraya, M. S., Ausloos, M., Awan, A. T., Quintanilla, B. P. A., Ayano, G., Ayanore, M. A., Aynalem, Y. A., Azari, S., Azarian, G., Azene, Z. N., Darshan, B., Babaee, E., Badiye, A. D., Baig, A. A., Banach, M.

“…Interpretation: Global child mortality declined by almost half between 2000 and 2019, but progress remains slower in neonates and 65 (32%) of 204 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, are not on track to meet either SDG 3.2 target by 2030. …”
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Approaches to promote handwashing and sanitation behaviour change in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a mixed method systematic review by Emmy De Buck, Hans Van Remoortel, Karin Hannes, Thashlin Govender, Selvan Naidoo, Bert Avau, Axel Vande Veegaete, Alfred Musekiwa, Vittoria Lutje, Margaret Cargo, Hans‐Joachim Mosler, Philippe Vandekerckhove, Taryn Young

“…The quantitative studies were conducted in LMICs worldwide, with the majority of the studies in South Asia and Sub‐Saharan Africa. What are the main findings of this review? …”
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Historical and future changes in air pollutants from CMIP6 models by S. T. Turnock, R. J. Allen, M. Andrews, S. E. Bauer, S. E. Bauer, M. Deushi, L. Emmons, P. Good, L. Horowitz, J. G. John, M. Michou, P. Nabat, V. Naik, D. Neubauer, F. M. O'Connor, D. Olivié, N. Oshima, M. Schulz, A. Sellar, S. Shim, T. Takemura, S. Tilmes, K. Tsigaridis, K. Tsigaridis, T. Wu, J. Zhang

“…Large regional historical changes are simulated for both pollutants across East and South Asia with an annual mean increase of up to 40&thinsp;<span class="inline-formula">ppb</span> for <span class="inline-formula">O₃</span> and 12&thinsp;<span class="inline-formula">µg m⁻³</span> for <span class="inline-formula">PM_2.5</span>. …”
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The Retreat of Mountain Glaciers since the Little Ice Age: A Spatially Explicit Database by Silvio Marta, Roberto Sergio Azzoni, Davide Fugazza, Levan Tielidze, Pritam Chand, Katrin Sieron, Peter Almond, Roberto Ambrosini, Fabien Anthelme, Pablo Alviz Gazitúa, Rakesh Bhambri, Aurélie Bonin, Marco Caccianiga, Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié, Jorge Luis Ceballos Lievano, John Clague, Justiniano Alejo Cochachín Rapre, Olivier Dangles, Philip Deline, Andre Eger, Rolando Cruz Encarnación, Sergey Erokhin, Andrea Franzetti, Ludovic Gielly, Fabrizio Gili, Mauro Gobbi, Alessia Guerrieri, Sigmund Hågvar, Norine Khedim, Rahab Kinyanjui, Erwan Messager, Marco Aurelio Morales-Martínez, Gwendolyn Peyre, Francesca Pittino, Jerome Poulenard, Roberto Seppi, Milap Chand Sharma, Nurai Urseitova, Blake Weissling, Yan Yang, Vitalii Zaginaev, Anaïs Zimmer, Guglielmina Adele Diolaiuti, Antoine Rabatel, Gentile Francesco Ficetola

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A new assessment of global and regional budgets, fluxes, and lifetimes of atmospheric reactive N and S gases and aerosols by Y. Ge, Y. Ge, M. Vieno, D. S. Stevenson, P. Wind, M. R. Heal

“…In East Asia, lifetimes for RDN (2.9–3.0 d), OXN (3.9–4.5 d), and OXS (3.4–3.7 d) are short, whereas lifetimes in the Rest of Asia and Africa regions are about twice as long. South Asia is the largest net exporter of RDN (2.21 TgN yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span>, 29 % of its annual emission), followed by the Euro_Medi region. …”
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Global diversity and antimicrobial resistance of typhoid fever pathogens: Insights from a meta-analysis of 13,000 Salmonella Typhi genomes by Megan E Carey, Zoe A Dyson, Danielle J Ingle, Afreenish Amir, Mabel K Aworh, Marie Anne Chattaway, Ka Lip Chew, John A Crump, Nicholas A Feasey, Benjamin P Howden, Karen H Keddy, Mailis Maes, Christopher M Parry, Sandra Van Puyvelde, Hattie E Webb, Ayorinde Oluwatobiloba Afolayan, Anna P Alexander, Shalini Anandan, Jason R Andrews, Philip M Ashton, Buddha Basnyat, Ashish Bavdekar, Isaac I Bogoch, John D Clemens, Kesia Esther da Silva, Anuradha De, Joep de Ligt, Paula Lucia Diaz Guevara, Christiane Dolecek, Shanta Dutta, Marthie M Ehlers, Louise Francois Watkins, Denise O Garrett, Gauri Godbole, Melita A Gordon, Andrew R Greenhill, Chelsey Griffin, Madhu Gupta, Rene S Hendriksen, Robert S Heyderman, Yogesh Hooda, Juan Carlos Hormazabal, Odion O Ikhimiukor, Junaid Iqbal, Jobin John Jacob, Claire Jenkins, Dasaratha Ramaiah Jinka, Jacob John, Gagandeep Kang, Abdoulie Kanteh, Arti Kapil, Abhilasha Karkey, Samuel Kariuki, Robert A Kingsley, Roshine Mary Koshy, AC Lauer, Myron M Levine, Ravikumar Kadahalli Lingegowda, Stephen P Luby, Grant Austin Mackenzie, Tapfumanei Mashe, Chisomo Msefula, Ankur Mutreja, Geetha Nagaraj, Savitha Nagaraj, Satheesh Nair, Take K Naseri, Susana Nimarota-Brown, Elisabeth Njamkepo, Iruka N Okeke, Sulochana Putli Bai Perumal, Andrew J Pollard, Agila Kumari Pragasam, Firdausi Qadri, Farah N Qamar, Sadia Isfat Ara Rahman, Savitra Devi Rambocus, David A Rasko, Pallab Ray, Roy Robins-Browne, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Jean Pierre Rutanga, Samir K Saha, Senjuti Saha, Karnika Saigal, Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib, Jessica C Seidman, Jivan Shakya, Varun Shamanna, Jayanthi Shastri, Rajeev Shrestha, Sonia Sia, Michael J Sikorski, Ashita Singh, Anthony M Smith, Kaitlin A Tagg, Dipesh Tamrakar, Arif Mohammed Tanmoy, Maria Thomas, Mathew S Thomas, Robert Thomsen, Nicholas R Thomson, Siaosi Tupua, Krista Vaidya, Mary Valcanis, Balaji Veeraraghavan, François-Xavier Weill, Jackie Wright, Gordon Dougan, Silvia Argimón, Jacqueline A Keane, David M Aanensen, Stephen Baker, Kathryn E Holt, Global Typhoid Genomics Consortium Group Authorship

“…Azithromycin resistance mutations were detected at low prevalence in South Asia, including in two common ciprofloxacin-resistant genotypes. …”
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TRACING AFRICA TO JAMAICA: Ethnicity,Gender and Postcolonial Identity in Abeng by H. Adlai Murdoch

“…As the Caribbean increasingly became the stage for contacts between peoples from Africa, South Asia, and Europe, the racial and cultural binaries predicated on colonization and slavery became the primary framework for social differentiation in the colonies. …”
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